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<\/a>Collage assembled by Kate Brauman. Image Credits \u2013 Globe: Reto St\u00f6ckli, Robert Simmon, MODIS teams, NASA<\/a>. Satellite images: shrimp aquaculture in Honduras, Landsat 7, 1999, Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory<\/a>. Small photos: Kate Brauman.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Big changes in agriculture are visible on the global scale \u2013 changes in crop yields, dietary choices, water use, fertilizer application, soil retention, and nutrient pollution. In some parts of the world, yield lags, revealing opportunities to get more out of land already in production. In others, crop production has sagged or plateaued. Will yields keep increasing as they have in the past? It\u2019s hard to see trajectories without local context, said session organizer Kate Brauman of the University of Minnesota\u2019s Institute on the Environment. Site-specific field work fills in details.<\/p>\n \u201cAgronomy has been working very successfully for a long time, and it\u2019s been focused on practitioners,\u201d said Brauman. \u201cAnd global analysis can be hard for someone in the field to interpret. How can we take insights from the local to the global scale and make them useful?\u201d<\/p>\n Ecology has great scientists studying the very local, applied art and science of getting more yield out of our crops and the local ecological effects of agriculture, and great scientists studying global trends, said Bauman. It does not have much of a history of cross-pollination between the groups. This session aims to bridge gulfs of scientific culture and of scale, connecting the satellite\u2019s eye view of global change to the view from the field; computational modeling to on-the-ground experimentation; and snapshot observations to daily, seasonal, annual, and decadal change.<\/p>\n More Agro-ecology at ESA\u2019s 2013 Annual Meeting in Minneapolis by Liza Lester, ESA communications officer \u00a0 Big changes in agriculture are visible on the global scale \u2013 changes in crop yields, dietary choices, water use, fertilizer application, soil retention, and nutrient pollution. In some parts of the world, yield lags, revealing opportunities to get more out of land already in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":9154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1565],"tags":[110,300,1566,1524,1327,1530],"class_list":["post-9152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esa-2013-annual-meeting","tag-agriculture","tag-annual-meeting","tag-esa2013","tag-modeling","tag-satellite","tag-university-of-minnesota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Symposium 20: Integrating Agro-Ecological Research Across Spatial and Temporal Scales<\/a>
\nThursday, August 8, 2013: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
\nOrganizer: Kate Brauman<\/p>\n
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\n(Poster session)<\/li>\n
\n(Contributed Oral Session) Grasslands, coffee, excess nitrogen fertilizer<\/li>\n
\nBiodiversity, weeds, spatial organization<\/li>\n
\nIncludes soybean symbiosis, prairie grazing gradients, and bioenergy constraints.<\/li>\n
\nConsequences of armed conflict, restoration ecology, and shifting away from beef(?).<\/li>\n
\n(Organized Oral Session) The invisible world of roots, fungi, insects, arthropods, microbes, and decomposing plants matter matter very much to crop success and environmental health. This session will evaluate the state of the science and \u201calternative\u201d agro-ecological systems, and discuss management opportunities.<\/li>\n
\nCranberries, blueberries, and parasitoid wasps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"